On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 09:16:14PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Pigeon wrote: > > >On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 03:44:48PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > >>I live about 45 minutes from one of those "Sweetwater"-named towns > >>mentioned by another poster. How it got that name with the gyp-y water > >>in the area is beyond me. (One of the town's main industries is a gypsum > >>plant -- go figure.) > > > >Gypsum: calcium sulphate... you have really hard water which is good > >for rearing pigeons? > > Thankfully, that 45 minutes worth of distance makes a huge difference in > water quality. As to whether that water's good for pigeons, I dunno. Probably - young pigeons often suffer from calcium deficiency, which is one reason (though not the only one) for the pigeons you see around with deformed feet. When I'm hand-rearing one I add a pinch of chalk to the feeds, which prevents this problem. Chemistry master sa chalk is calcium carbonate and FIZZ with acids wich is wot make fire extingushers squirt ect. So i pinch piece of skool chalk and put in botle of vinegar at lunch table nuthing hapen chiz. Turns out skool chalk is reely gipsum chiz chiz chiz. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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